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Pte Robert Howard Costall
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Service Number: N55336876 Rank: Private |
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Born: Sep 27, 1983 Thunder Bay, Ontario |
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Enlisted: Discharged: Deceased |
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Served In:
Afghanistan
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Service: CF (Canadian Forces) |
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Regiment: Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry |
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Training: Edmonton, Alberta |
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| Service Notes: |
The army brought out the best in him. It suited his patriotism, and his natural sense of camaraderie. Posted to Edmonton with Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry, he married Chrissy, his teenage friend from B.C., and soon became a father.
On his last day in Edmonton before leaving for Afghanistan, he and Chrissy celebrated the first birthday of their son, Colin. |
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Private Costall was born in Thunder Bay and moved with his family to Gibsons Landing, British Columbia at the age of seven. At age 19 he returned to Thunder Bay to live with his grandmother. Hockey had been Rob Costall's singular passion all his life. He had played competitively until shortly before 9/11, when an injury forced him to give up the game.
Shortly thereafter he visited the Canadian Forces recruiting office to offer himself for military service.
When Private Costall was called to serve Canada, he found himself in a foreign land of chaos and despair. His duty was to help the besieged people of Afghanistan in their quest to realize the comfort, safety and freedom that he himself had been blessed with. |
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| Deceased: |
03/29/2006 at Province of Helmand, Afghanistan |
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Cremated |
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Pte. Costall died following a firefight with insurgents in northern Helmand province, approximately 110 km northwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan. The machine gunner took a direct hit to the head and was killed instantly. He leaves behind his wife Chrissy, who lives in the Edmonton bedroom community of Namao and a one-year-old son named Colin. |
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Pte Robert Howard Costall
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